Naich

You never know, it might prompt us to realise that we are all on the same planet, in the vast emptiness of space, with no planet B within travelling range. It might make us stop our petty squabbling and work together to protect our home.

Lol. Nah.

Not as stupid as the headline makes it sound. Signal is used in phishing attacks, whereas the home grown one is restricted to authorised users, making it more difficult.

In a world where psychopathic mega corporations are openly looking for ways to enslave humanity and bring about the end of the planet, the weird tantrums of an obviously mentally spicy web site owner just seem cute.

There are plenty of stupid ideas being pushed everywhere. In general, the EU has better checks and balances to weed out the awful ones. Not always obviously, but no system is perfect.

Trying to solve social problems with technology always works.

Don’t forget small government.

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Beer, motorcycles, and bird boxes.

“for those that want it” does offer some hope that it’s not going to go to shit.

Just let the poor fucker die.

I have forked Floof and integrated it with Qak on a b0rf backend. It’s called √πy (pronounced âèk)

They are already sucking at Microslop’s AI-encrusted teat. It’s a major UK university, and there used to be a mix of systems, with a lot of really good functional software written in-house. Over the past decade, as they have been retired, they were replaced with MS-based turd-rolled-in-glitter ecosystems that drive me up the wall. The old stuff wasn’t pretty, but it worked and did all you needed and no more. It now feels like some sort of Rube Goldberg machine with fireworks.

I have to use Jira at work. It’s fucking awful.

This is impressive technology which has the potential to benefit humans by having things like robot firemen who just walk into flaming buildings and rescue people.

But who am I kidding? Tech companies will just it to cut jobs in order to enrich themselves and make everyone else poorer.

My bookmarks are organised into folders. Once an open folder gets a scroll bar, I prune the links.

Been using it for a couple of decades now. It just keeps getting better. You can’t say that about many things these days.

Capitalism! Fuck yeah!

Tapeworm. Nothing to do but just hang there and eat the food that someone else finds for me. That’s the life for me.

There are about 20 different ways of assigning someone a description of “male” or “female” - examples are the gametes someone produces, their genitals, and how their brains are wired. Other species can have more than 2 genders or change from one gender to another, and it could be argued that mushrooms have hundreds of them. There are also organisms which have both male and female characteristics in the same body - in some cases, they have both genitals. The natural world is a messy place when it comes to gender, and there are no rules.

Humans like to define things, give them names and put them in neat little boxes, but nature isn’t like that. Nature doesn’t give a fuck that humans like to assign people one gender or another. Nature creates people who have some male and some female characteristics because there is no natural rule that says everything has to be one or the other. A person with male genitals can have a brain wired up in a female style. Their brain says they are female, but they were defined as male at birth. These are the people who society fails miserably in its rigid adherence to the philosophy of male/female, in a world where this distinction does not actually exist.

The words “biologically male” are loaded, creating an assumption that such a thing is easily definable, and that a person must be one gender or another. This is simply not the case.

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